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  1. Unit I Geography: Its Nature and Perspectives
    1. Unit 1 Course Description
      1. Geography as a field of inquiry.
      2. Evolution of key geographical concepts and models associated with notable geographers.
      3. Key concepts underlying the geographical perspective: location, space, place, scale, pattern, regionalization, and globalization.
      4. Key geographical skills.
        1. How to use and think about maps and spatial data.
        2. How to understand and interpret the implications of associations among phenomena in places.
        3. How to recognize and interpret at different scales the relationships among patterns and processes.
        4. How to define regions and evaluate the regionalization process.
        5. How to characterize and analyze changing interconnections among places.
      5. Geographic technologies, such as GIS, remote sensing, and GPS.
      6. Sources of geographical ideas and data: the field, census data, and satellite imagery.
    2. De Blij & Murphy
      1. Chapter 1: Introduction to Human Geography
      2. Goode's World Atlas
    3. Supplemental Material/Activities
      1. Terms
      2. Five Themes of Geography Worksheet
      3. Models Worksheet
      4. Pattison's Traditions Worksheet
      5. Chapter 1.1 Worksheet
      6. Geographers Speed Dating Style
      7. Chapter 1.2 Worksheet
      8. Defining Geography: What is Where, Why There, and Why Care?
      9. A New Look at the Four Traditions of Geography
      10. Pattison's 4 Traditions
      11. The 5 Themes of Geography
      12. Global Positioning System
      13. The Internet: The Revenge of Geography
      14. Geography Scavenger Hunt
    4. Media & Projects
      1. Power of Place #1
      2. Human Geography in Action: Ch 1 True Maps/False Maps
    5. Quizzes/Tests
      1. Chapter 1.1 Quiz
      2. Chapter 1.2 Quiz
      3. Note cards
      4. Unit I Test
  2. Unit II: Population
    1. Unit 2 Course Description
      1. Geographical analysis of population
        1. Density, distribution, and scale
        2. Implications of various densities and distributions
        3. Patterns of composition: age, sex, race, and ethnicity
        4. Population and natural hazards: past, present, and future
      2. Population growth and decline over time and space
        1. Historical trends and projections for the future
        2. Theories of population growth, including the Demographic Transition Model
        3. Patterns of fertility, morality, and health
        4. Regional variations of demographic transitions
        5. Effects of population policies
      3. Population movement
        1. Migration selectivity
        2. Major voluntary and involuntary migrations at different scales
        3. Theories of migration, including push and pull factors, human capital, and life course
        4. International migration and refugees
        5. Socioeconomic consequences of migration
    2. De Blij & Murphy
      1. Chapter 2: Population
      2. Chapter 3: Migration
    3. Supplemental Material/Activities
      1. Terms List
      2. Population Pyramids
      3. Demographic Transition Model Article
      4. Population Growth & Doubling
      5. Chapter 2.1 Worksheet
      6. Chapter 2.2 Worksheet
      7. Chapter 3.1 Worksheet
      8. Chapter 3.2 Worksheet
      9. Immigrant Interview
      10. PRB Unmet Need Infographic
      11. Demographic Transition Model
    4. Media & Projects
      1. Power of Place #2.2
      2. Power of Place #21
      3. The World in Balance
      4. HGIA: Ch 5 - The Hidden Momentum of Population Growth
      5. HGIA: Ch 4 - Newton's First Law of Migration (Gravity Model)
      6. HGIA: Ch 3 - Tracking AIDS Epidemic in the US; Diffusion Through Space and Time
    5. Quizzes/Tests
      1. Quiz Chapter 2.1
      2. Quiz Chapter 2.2
      3. Quiz Chapter 3.1
      4. Quiz Chapter 3.2
      5. Study Questions for Unit II Test
      6. Note cards
      7. Unit II Test
      8. Unit II FRQ
  3. Unit III: Cultural Patterns and Processes
    1. Unit 3 Course Description
      1. Concepts of culture
        1. Traits
        2. Diffusion
        3. Acculturation, assimilation, and globalization
        4. Cultural regions
      2. Cultural differences
        1. Language
        2. Religion
        3. Ethnicity
        4. Gender
        5. Popular and folk culture
      3. Cultural landscapes and cultural identity
        1. Values and preferences
        2. Symbolic landscapes and sense of place
        3. Environmental impact of cultural attitudes and practices
    2. De Blij & Murphy
      1. Chapter 4: Local Culture, Popular Culture and Cultural Landscapes
      2. Chapter 5: Identity: Race, Ethnicity, Gender, & Sexuality
      3. Chapter 6: Language
      4. Chapter 7: Religion
    3. Supplemental Material/Activities
      1. Terms List
      2. Chapter 4 Worksheet
      3. Chapter 5 Worksheet
      4. Chapter 6.1 Worksheet
      5. Chapter 6.2 Worksheet
      6. Chapter 7.1 Worksheet
      7. Chapter 7.2 Worksheet
      8. Research Project and Cultural Influences
      9. World Religions
      10. Cultural Patterns and Processes - Ethnic Conflict
      11. Is a Smile Just a Smile
      12. Cultural Landscapes from Around the World
      13. Equal Rights for Women? Survey Says: Yes, but...
    4. Media & Projects
      1. Power of Place #24.1
      2. Power of Place #25
      3. Power of Place #17
      4. Merchants of Cool
      5. HGIA: Ch 2 - Layers of Tradition: Culture Regions at Different Scales
      6. HGIA: Ch 12 - Do Orange and Green Clash? Residential Segregation in Northern Ireland
    5. Quizzes/Tests
      1. Quiz Chapter 4
      2. Quiz Chapter 5
      3. Quiz Chapter 6.1
      4. Quiz Chapter 6.2
      5. Quiz Chapter 7.1
      6. Quiz Chapter 7.2
      7. Study Questions for Unit III Test
      8. Note cards
      9. Unit III Test
      10. Unit III FRQ
  4. Unit IV: Political Organization of Space
    1. Unit 4 Course Description
      1. Territorial dimensions of politics
        1. The concept of territoriality
        2. The nature and meaning of boundaries
        3. Influences of boundaries on identities, interaction, and exchange
        4. Federal and unitary states
        5. Spatial relationships between political patterns and patterns of ethnicity, economy, and environment.
      2. Evolution of the contemporary political patterns
        1. The nation-state concept
        2. Colonialism and imperialism
        3. Democratization
      3. Changes and challenges to political-territorial arrangements
        1. Changing nature of sovereignty
        2. Fragmentation, unification, alliance
        3. Supranationalism and devolution
        4. Electoral geography, including gerrymandering
        5. Terrorism
    2. De Blij & Murphy
      1. Chapter 8: Political Geography
    3. Supplemental Material/Activities
      1. Terms List
      2. Chapter 8.1 Worksheet
      3. Chapter 8.2 Worksheet
      4. Chapter 8.3 Worksheet
      5. Political Models
      6. 10 Most Unusual Borders
      7. Berlin Conference of 1884
      8. Gerrymandering
      9. Political Geography of the Oceans
      10. Shape of the State
      11. Can A Town Divided .. Stand?
      12. In Praise of Borders
      13. Invisible Millions Pay Price of Statelessness
      14. The European Union
      15. Township & Range
      16. Stateless Groups Around the World
    4. Media & Projects
      1. Power of Place #3
      2. Power of Place #4
      3. Power of Place #8
      4. HGIA: Ch 13 - Breaking Up is Hard to Do; Nations, States, and Nation-States
    5. Quizzes/Tests
      1. Quiz Chapter 8.1
      2. Quiz Chapter 8.2
      3. Quiz Chapter 8.3
      4. Study Questions for Unit IV Test
      5. Note cards
      6. Unit IV Test
      7. Unit IV FRQ
  5. Unit V. Agriculture and Rural Land Use
    1. Unit 5 Course Description
      1. Development and diffusion of agriculture
        1. Neolithic Agricultural Revolution
        2. Second Agricultural Revolution
        3. Green Revolution
        4. Modern Commercial Agriculture
      2. Major agricultural production regions
        1. Agricultural systems associated with major bioclimatic zones
        2. Variations within major zones and effects of markets
        3. Linkages and flows among regions of food production and consumption
      3. Rural land use and settlement patterns
        1. Models of agricultural land use, including von Thunen's model
        2. Settlement patterns associated with major agriculture types
        3. Land use/land cover change, irrigation, conservation (desertification, deforestation)
      4. Modern commercial agriculture
        1. Biotechnology, including genetically modified plants and animals
        2. Spatial organization and diffusion of industrial agriculture
        3. Organic farming and local food production
        4. Environmental impacts of agriculture
    2. De Blij & Murphy
      1. Chapter 11: Agriculture
    3. Supplemental Material/Activities
      1. Terms list
      2. Chapter 11.1 Worksheet
      3. Chapter 11.2 Worksheet
      4. Chapter 13.1 Worksheet
      5. Chapter 13.2 Worksheet
      6. Green Revolution
      7. Two Examples of Commodity
      8. The Global Food Crisis
      9. Geography of Agriculture
      10. Slash and Burn Agriculture
      11. Green Revolution Expires?
      12. Confined Livestock Better for the Planet
      13. The Changing Scale of American Agriculture
      14. Koppen Climate Classification System
    4. Media & Projects
      1. Power of Place #7.2
      2. Power of Place #16
      3. Power of Place #20
      4. Power of Place #23.2
      5. Power of Place #24.2
      6. HGIA: Ch 8 - Food for Thought: The Globalization of Agriculture
    5. Quizzes/Tests
      1. Quiz Chapter 11.1
      2. Quiz Chapter 11.2
      3. Quiz Chapter 13
      4. Notecards
      5. Unit V Test
      6. Unit V FRQ
  6. VII: Cities and Urban Land Use
    1. Unit 7 Course Description
      1. Development and character of cities
        1. Origin of cities
        2. Rural-urban migration and urban growth
        3. Global cities and megacities
        4. Suburbanization and edge cities
      2. Models of urban systems
        1. Rank-size rule
        2. Central Place Theory (Christaller)
        3. Gravity model
      3. Models of internal city structure
        1. Concentric Zone Model (Burgess)
        2. Sector Model (Hoyt)
        3. Multiple-nuclei model (Harris/Ullman)
        4. Changing employment mix
        5. Changing demographic and social structure
        6. Uneven development, ghettoization, and gentrification
      4. Built environment and social space
        1. Housing
        2. Transportation and infrastructure
        3. Political organization of urban areas
        4. Urban planning and design
        5. Patterns of race, ethnicity, gender, and socioeconomic status
    2. De Blij & Murphy
      1. Chapter 9: Urban Geography
    3. Supplemental Material/Activities
      1. Terms list
      2. Chapter 9.1 Worksheet
      3. Chapter 9.2 Worksheet
      4. Chapter 9.3 Worksheet
      5. Urban Migration Drives Surge in World
      6. Cities of the World
      7. 3 Urban Models
      8. Burgess Concentric Zone
      9. Sector and Nuclei Models
      10. Central Place Theory
      11. Land Rent Theory
      12. Urban Morphology
      13. Edge City
      14. Gravity Model
      15. Primate Cities
      16. Urban Heat Island
    4. Media & Projects
      1. Power of Place #5
      2. Power of Place #9
      3. Power of Place #23
      4. Power of Place #24
      5. HGIA: Ch 10 - Reading the Urban Landscape: Census Data and Field Observation
    5. Quizzes/Tests
      1. Quiz Chapter 9.1
      2. Quiz Chapter 9.2
      3. Quiz Chapter 9.3
      4. Note cards
      5. Unit VI Test
      6. Unit VI FRQ
  7. Unit VI: Industrialization and Economic Development
    1. Unit 6 Course Description
      1. Growth and diffusion of industrialization
        1. The changing roles of energy and technology
        2. Industrial Revolution
        3. Evolution of economic cores and peripheries
        4. Geographic critiques of models of economic localization (i.e. bid rent, comparative costs of transportation) industrial location, economic development, and world systems
      2. Contemporary patterns and impacts of industrialization and development
        1. Spatial organization of the world economy
        2. Variations in levels of development
        3. Deindustrialization and economic restructuring
        4. Globalization and international division of labor
        5. Natural resources and environmental concerns
        6. Sustainable development
        7. Local development initiatives: governmental policies
        8. Women in development
    2. De Blij & Murphy
      1. Chapter 10: Development
      2. Chapter 12: Industry & Service
      3. Chapter 14: Human Environment
    3. Supplemental Material/Activities
      1. Terms List
      2. Chapter 10.1 Worksheet
      3. Chapter 10.2 Worksheet
      4. Chapter 12.1 Worksheet
      5. Chapter 12.2 Worksheet
      6. Chapter 14 Worksheet
      7. Weber's Theory of Industrial Location
      8. Rostow's Theory of Industrial Development
      9. Wallerstein's Model
      10. Geography in the News: America's Aging Population Grows
      11. Geography in the News: Cargo Container Shipments Venerable
      12. Accents of Africa: A New Outsourcing Frontier
      13. Potholes in the Global Road
      14. MNC Rwanda Rd
      15. Move Over Oil - H2O
      16. Foreign Internets
      17. Room For WWW2
      18. Developed or Developing
      19. New Silk Road Built by China Connects Asia to Latin America
      20. Industrial & Economic Development Notes
    4. Media & Projects
      1. Power of Place #5-1
      2. Power of Place #10
      3. Power of Place #11-2
      4. Power of Place #14
      5. Power of Place #15.1
      6. Power of Place #22-2
      7. Power of Place #26-2
      8. HGIA: Ch 6 - Help Wanted: The Changing Geography of Jobs
      9. HGIA: Ch 7 - Rags to Riches: The Dimensions of Development
    5. Quizzes/Tests
      1. Quiz Chapter 10.1
      2. Quiz Chapter 10.2
      3. Quiz Chapter 12.1
      4. Quiz Chapter 12.2
      5. Quiz Chapter 14
      6. Note cards
      7. Unit VII Test
      8. Unit VII FRQ
  8. Review and Exam Prep
    1. Lecture Notes
      1. Unit I: Geography: Its Nature and Perspectives
      2. Unit II: Population
      3. Unit III(a): Cultural Patterns and Processes - Language
      4. Unit III(b): Cultural Patterns and Processes - Religion
      5. Unit III(c): Cultural Patterns and Processes - Folk & Popular Culture
      6. Unit III(d): Cultural Patterns and Processes - Ethnic Geography
      7. Unit IV: Political Organization of Space
      8. Unit V: Agriculture & Rural Land Use
      9. Unit VI: Industrialization & Economic Development
      10. Unit VII: Cities and Urban Land Use
    2. Discussion Questions
      1. Unit I: Geography: Its Nature and Perspectives
      2. Unit II: Population
      3. Unit III: Cultural Patterns and Processes
      4. Unit IV: Political Organization of Space
      5. Unit V: Agriculture & Rural Land Use
      6. Unit VI: Industrialization & Economic Development
      7. Unit VII: Cities and Urban Land Use
    3. Practice Exams
      1. AP Human Geography Practice Tests
      2. McGraw Hill Practice Tests
      3. Feldman Quiz Site